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Topic: Free Play: how does it work? (Read 616 times)

Hi, I am trying to use the Free Play possibility op the PSR 770, but don't know how it works.Do I load "Etherial voices"as a style and then turn on Accomp and the variatopns?I ffound out that with no style selected when i activate the Accomp my left hand triggers an orchestral sound while I play a chosen voice with my right. Is that Free Play too?Thanks for your answer in advance.

If I understand it correctly, free play is a style but is not set to any timing e.g 4/4 or 6/8 etc. Therefore you can play along at the speed you require,speed up or slow down without the need to adjust tempo

The freeplay style can give you a vary dramatic effect on a movie songWhile it does not have a drum beat associated with it; the build up with the different variations can be useful.I used mine to create some songs from the movie Gladiator

Free Play is a characteristic of a style, not a feature of an instrument. Yamaha describes it this way: "FreePlay Styles are unique in that they lack the rhythmic component present in regular Styles. This allows users to use them with more expressive, rubato-style playing in order to convey a specific musical statement. These types of Styles are perfect for cinematic and ethereal compositions where a sense of time is purposely being omitted."

According to the 'Data List' the PSR-S770 only has 1 Freeplay style which must be 'EtherealMovie' in the 'Movie&Show' category. There are 2 more on the S970.

Although Yamaha list all preset styles in the various 'Data Lists' for their keyboard, the lists do not indicate the type ofstyle! I see that this nonsense seems to be the same with the Genos Data List, unless it has been changed since the first version was hurriedly removed!

Here is a link to a post by Michael Bedesem from a thread about Freeplay styles, which contains a link to download a collection of them. They will play on an S770, but some may use voices which are not on that keyboard, so you would need to replace such voices with ones that are available. I have just checked and the link is still live...